Mary Meeker’s 2011 Presentation On Internet Trends

Mary Meeker's presentations are always among the most insightful you'll see.

KPCB Internet Trends (2011)

Mary Meeker’s 2011 Presentation On Internet Trends [Slides]:

1. Globality – We Aren’t In Kansas Anymore…

Meeker revealed that 81% of users of the top ten global internet properties are outside the USA, which makes global markets a force to be reckoned with.

2. Mobile – Early Innings Growth, Still…

iPhones, iPods and iPads have revolutionized the market. But Android tablets and phones, at a different price point, are not to be underestimated.

3. User Interface – Text/Graphical/ Touch / Sound / Move

“Sound is going to be bigger than video. Record is the new Qwerty,” say SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung.

4. Commerce – Fast / Easy / Fun / Savings = More Important Than Ever…

The ability to click and buy on a mobile device is making a huge difference in mobile commerce. “It’s now an expectation that if you see it on your screen, you can click and buy it,” says Meeker.

5. Advertising – Lookin’ Good…

Look at Google’s click growth for an indicator of advertising health: 23% of clicks on ads is a good sign Meeker says.

6. Content Creation – Changed Forever

Meeker refers to Joanne Bradford from DemandMedia doing a better job at talking about content creation.

7. Technology / Mobile Leadership – Americans Should Be Proud

64% of smartphones have U.S.A. OSes (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) versus 5% 5 years ago.

8. Mega-Trend of 21st Century = Empowerment of People via Connected Mobile Devices

“The ability to get realtime fast and broad information flow is only going to get greater,” says Meeker.

9. Authentic Identity – The Good / Bad / Ugly. But Mostly Good?

“One of the biggest topics of the next ten years,” Meeker says.

10. Economy – Lots of Uncertainty

Despite lots of indicators of uncertainty, “We’ve had a good two weeks.”

11. USA Inc. – Pay Attention!

The US ranks 10th on a list of country by debt. Greece, by comparison, ranks number 3.

(Via techcrunch.com)

Newsletter 2.0

Interesting concept - an online newspaper or newsletter created by combining the information shared by the people you follow on twitter. Lot's of possibilities for this type of service (available for free at paper.li) - you could pull info from your full twitter feed, from a particular hashtag (for example a conference), or from a particular list you've created.

Let's say you're attending a 3-day conference in Rhode Island. You could create a custom newsletter that shares the information from that conference - sort of a daily summary of the conference. Consider also that you're interested in network security - you could create a newsletter/newspaper based on a list of security experts that you follow - great weekly and daily reading assignments for your students!



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Free E-Book: Web Tools for Educators

The Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators:

Here is the book. Download it, pass it out, share it with your colleagues, administrators, teammates.

Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators -

Teaching, Learning and Web 2.0

Some nice slides ...

Learning, teaching & Web 2.0: Finding a comfortable fit

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Social Emerging Media Diagrams

A great Flickr set from Gary Hayes.

The State of the Internet or Why We Care About Web 2.0

Please check out this post on Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching - a blog I'm writing collaboratively with Kelly Parr from the English Department. There's a great video (less than 4 minutes) embedded in the post. Click the link above or the image below to read the story.

Social Networking for Scientists

No pun intended ...
Sciencefeed Launches Friendfeed-Like Platform For Scientists

Today, Sciencefeed is launching as a realtime micro blogging platform designed specifically for scientists.

Sciencefeed allows users to post short microblogs (not restricted to 140 characters) on scientific headlines, new findings, controversy, conferences and ideas related to science. You can follow users; respond to other member’s entries, and comment on various topics in realtime. You can search for topics and keywords fairly easily and publish updates to Twitter and Facebook. Since conferences are an integral part of scientific research, Scienfeed allows users to create groups around events and even aggregate updates from participants based on a hashtag, similar to Twitter. Publications can be attached to a feed, allowing users to automatically search through 10 different literature databases (such as PubMed) and RSS feeds.

Also worth a look is ResearchGATE - LinkedIn for Scientists.

VoiceThread - Video Conversations

Please visit Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching to read about an interesting new tool - VoiceThread.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Great list from Jane Hart.
Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List:

Here is the final list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled from the contributions of 278 learning professionals - from education and workplace learning - worldwide.  Thanks to all who contributed their Top 10 Tools for learning.

Below is the presentation I have shared on Slideshare.  You will also be able to find the full list at my main C4LPT site: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

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How to Download a YouTube Video

This story is cross-posted on Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching

Every semester, we get questions from faculty regarding the use of YouTube videos in their classes. Faculty, whether they're teaching online or face-to-face, have become accustomed to integrating YouTube video in their instruction. Most often, faculty use the video to highlight or illustrate a particular point or to seed a discussion or point of instruction. Faculty have gotten fairly adroit at grabbing the embed code from YouTube and embedding a video in their online course or faculty web page. Likewise they have very little difficulty grabbing the link and sharing it with students, either online or in a powerpoint presentation.

The issue that we're asked about most frequently is "How do I download a YouTube video?" The reason faculty may want to download the videos are many and varied. Most often cited are a lack of or slow Internet connection where they'll be using the video, or a fear that content on YouTube may disappear from semester to semester. There are many techniques for downloading content from YouTube. Some are fairly cumbersome and require multiple steps. The technique we illustrate in the video below is one of the simplest we've been able to find. The key to this approach is the use of a bookmarklet (bookmark + applet), which looks no different than the bookmarks we've all been using for years, but provides a lot more functionality than a vanilla bookmark.

You can grab the bookmarklet and read the instructions for yourself at the Google Operating System blog. So without further delay, here's the video - once you've mastered this technique, feel free to download our video;)

Did You Know 4.0

Did You Know 4.0:

XPLANE is happy to present Did You Know 4.0 — another official update to the original ‘Shift Happens’ video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.

As Garr Reynolds mentions over at Presentation Zen this morning, yes, this project was created with ‘off-the-shelf slideware’ (Keynote and GarageBand, actually, along with Photoshop and Illustrator). Content by XPLANE, The Economist, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and Laura Bestler. Design and development by XPLANE.

For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit The Economist’s Media Convergence conference site at mediaconvergence.economist.com, or stop by shifthappens.wikispaces.com for all things Did You Know.

Social Networking for Education

Many educators are puzzled by all the interest in Facebook and Twitter - questioning their educational uses and value. Here is an interesting web-based app (with mobile version targeted for the iPhone/iPod Touch) that allows students, educators and parents to connect with and learn from peers around the world. Pretty impressive list of schools involved already. If you're looking to bring social networking into your classroom, this may be worth a look.

9thPeriod - Making Education Social

9thPeriod.com is a new and exciting academic based social educational network and academic platform. 9thPeriod.com uses Web 2.0 tools and offers parents, students, teachers, academic experts, as well as institutions our services for the purposes of academic advancement.

Get matched with students taking the same high school and college classes, access to study materials, and get homework help!

via Jane's E-Learnig Pick of the Day

Emerging Technologies Wiki

Great wiki from a 5-day workshop on new and emerging technologies at the University of Manitoba. Some great information and links, and a great model for capturing information from a workshop.

Introduction to Emerging Technologies for Learning (Summer Institute)

Course Description

New technologies offer new opportunities for educators to increase learner engagement and improve the overall value of the learning experience. The last five years have resulted in the introduction of numerous new tools and approaches: blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking, virtual worlds, and social networking services. This course will explore the development of different technologies and suggest their potential impact on teaching and learning. Focus will be placed on tools that increase learner control over content, interaction, and the formation of learning networks with peers and experts outside of classrooms.

Course Overview


The Summer Institute is a 5 day face-to-face course that will assist faculty and academic leaders in exploring new technologies based on established theories of learning. Institute participants will receive instruction, support, direction and feedback on creating a sound pedagogical framework for their course and hands-on experience with numerous technologies that may be incorporated into the design of their course. The Summer Institute will demonstrate and utilize technology in its instructional strategies. Participants will provide peer feedback during and upon completion of their revised course design.

Prezi - An Online Alternative to Powerpoint

I've a prezi.com account for awhile, but hadn't done much. Here's a quick video I recorded of a prezi from Chris Thomson (@electricchalk).

Web 2.0 Flourishing in the Enterprise

This is interesting data - Web 2.0 seems to be moving into the mainstream.

T+D Blog: All Hail the Future!

Of 181 businesses (with an average size of 15,000 employees), the most frequently deployed technology was online video at 56 percent with role-based portals coming in second at 41 percent. Social networking (23 percent), blogs (21 percent), podcasts (19 percent), wikis (15 percent), and RSS feeds (12 percent) were all clustered near each other, but somewhat farther behind.

However, positive ratings were high with 65 percent of companies being satisfied with their use of online video; 59 percent with their use of podcasts; 58 percent with their use of RSS feeds; and 57 percent with their use of role-based portals. The lowest satisfaction rates were with social networking (49 percent), blogs (40 percent), and wikis (40 percent), but even those were still relatively high.

Snailmail, The Fax Machine, Email, Social Media and Twitter

Great way to think about the evolution of communication. Minding the Planet: How Twitter Makes Things Faster: A Timeline

The World is Getting Faster

In the world of Twitter things happen in real-time, not Internet-time. It's even faster than the world of the 1990's and the early 2000's. Here's an interesting timeline:

1. In the 1980's the fax machine made snailmail almost obsolete. Faxing was faster.
2. In the 1990's email made faxing almost obsolete. Email was faster.
3. In the 2000's social media rose to challenge email's dominance. The blogosphere became the center of focus.Blogging about something was often a faster way to get attention (to oneself, or to the topic) than emailing people. And you could more easily reach a larger audience.
4. In the 2010's it looks like Twitter (and other real-time messaging systems) may become more important than email and even blogging. Twitter is simply faster. And you can reach more people in less time, more interactively, in Twitter than via email.Twitter may overcome the asynchronous nature of the Web. Even search may go "real-time."

Do You Make Money from the Internet?

I don't! And apparently most people that are blogging, podcasting, tagging, twittering or some other version of Web 2.0 content generation aren't making money either. At least not enough to quit their day jobs. Welcome to 99.99% percentile of Web 2.0 content generators - there are 250 million of us! The slide above is from the following presentation from the Web 3.0 group on slideshare:

Web3.0

View more presentations from Johannes Bhakdi. (tags: publishing blogging)

If you think the chart is wrong, consider the story of Dan Lyons - the journalist who wrote the viral blog - The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, but never made enough to quit his day job. Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com:

For two years I was obsessed with trying to turn a blog into a business. I posted 10 or 20 items a day to my site, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, rarely taking a break. I blogged from cabs, using my BlackBerry. I blogged in the middle of the night, having awakened with an idea. I rationalized this insane behavior by telling myself that at the end of this rainbow I would find a huge pot of gold. But reality kept interfering with this fantasy. My first epiphany occurred in August 2007, when The New York Times ran a story revealing my identity, which until then I'd kept secret. On that day more than 500,000 people hit my site—by far the biggest day I'd ever had—and through Google's AdSense program I earned about a hundred bucks. Over the course of that entire month, in which my site was visited by 1.5 million people, I earned a whopping total of $1,039.81. Soon after this I struck an advertising deal that paid better wages. But I never made enough to quit my day job.

Technology's Role in Advancing Your Career

Great quote from Will Richardson's blog.

Weblogg-ed » Quote O’ the Day:

From the just released 2009 Horizon Report:

Information technologies are having a significant impact on how people work, play, gain information, and collaborate. Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines. With the growing availability of tools to connect learners and scholars all over the world — online collaborative workspaces, social networking tools, mobiles, voice-over-IP, and more — teaching and scholarship are transcending traditional borders more and more all the time. (Emphasis mine.)

Tom Friedman and Classroom 2.0

Visit Classroom 2.0

I'm a member of Classroom 2.0, a social network comprised of educators interested in shaping the future of teaching and learning. It's a great network of educators built on top of ning, a site which allows users to create their own custom social networks. It's great to find like-minded educators trying to transform their classrooms into classroom 2.0.

Here's an announcement from the group on a live webinar tomorrow at 9am EST of Tom Friedman speaking to the students at the Flat Classrooms Conference in Doha, Qatar. If you're up early on Saturday morning, this might we worth checking out.

A message to all members of Classroom 2.0

Our kick-off event tomorrow (January 24th) for Future of Education will start an hour early in order to "simulcast" remarks being made by Tom Friedman, author of The World is Flat, to the students at the Flat Classrooms Conference in Doha, Qatar. More details at http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/the-flat-classrooms-debate.

Here's the updated schedule:

Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009

Time:
6am Pacific / 9am Easter / 2pm GMT: Live stream of Tom Friedman addressing students (international times here)
7am Pacific / 10am Eastern / 3pm GMT: Flat Classroom Debates begin (international times here).

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.3969DF972F394F21CAF665EF3F3896. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Video, audio, and chat recordings will be posted at the Future of Education community after the show.

Steve

Steve Hargadon
Founder, Classroom 2.0
www.stevehargadon.com
steve@hargadon.com

Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com

The News According to Twitter

Great video from Will Richardson, not only because he provides a great summary of activity on Twitter after plane crash into the Hudson, but also because he's using Prezi.com to create the video. If you're not on Twitter yet, what are you waiting for. And give prezi a serious look.

Weblogg-ed » The News According to Twitter

Playing around with Prezi.com here but also trying to capture what I think is an interesting shift in the way we learn about, gather and share news these days. Comments on form and content both welcomed.